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The Independent (a British newspaper) has reviewed Star Trek Into Darkness, if anyone is interested. The reviewers opinion comes down to "Star Trek Into Darkness gets the job done without ever threatening to raise one’s pulse."

For those who dislike reading things in a narrow column, here it is in a more normal format.

The cheers and whoops that greeted the 2009 relaunch of the Star Trek series contained in them, I thought, a big bass note of relief. For JJ Abrams had taken on the tricky task not only of appeasing a notoriously judgemental fanbase but of winning over a new generation of cinemagoers to whom a 1960s cult TV serial meant virtually squat.

Abrams’s film was respectful of but not slavish towards the tradition, acknowledging its epic proportions without pretending that any of it was Homer. Some smart casting and a better than average script ensured that intergalactic harmony was promisingly established between old school and new.

I thought they pulled the homage off brilliantly and enjoyed every minute of it, I 'll be going again soon.

I think they had overdone the TWOK hommages already, not only in nuTrek. But this one was too much. "No more references to TWOK" will be on the top of my wishlist for the next movie.

If I have to hear yet another "the needs of the many" speech or another "I've alwas been and always shall be your friend", I'm gonna freak out! And please, no more "Khaaaaan" ... please never do that again!

Another thing has just crossed my mind: Khan was found and revived less than a year prior to STID, and in that relatively short time period he became what he did become? He basically woke up 300 in the future and immediately became a top agent of Section 31 and a starship/weapons designer? Superior intellect or not, but that seems a bit fast. On the other hand, if people can go straight from Cadet to Captain after three years at the academy ... I guess anything is possible.

Augments are fast learners and highly adaptive, it would seem.

The original gang from TWOK was a bunch of people from 1990's, who after spending 300 years in stasis were isolated on Ceti Alpha. Before being put on the Botany Bay (as frozen cargo) they had no idea of space travel, I suppose. Yet - it was no trouble at all for them to comandeer a Miranda class starship and take it to war.

In ENT the augments comandeer a Bird Of Prey, make repairs to it and take it into battle against the Klingons and NX-01. One has to asume that Soong tought them Klingonese before, as they don't have any trouble in operating the ship, an alien ship. Again, it's all guys from the 1990's.

In the mirror episodes of ENT the NX crew, 22nd century people experienced in space had no idea how to assemble the Defiant, merely 100 years more advanced than what they already knew of warp drive and the rest of the technology (Tucker's line about him feeling like he was an engineer from a steamship etc.)

I thought they pulled the homage off brilliantly and enjoyed every minute of it, I 'll be going again soon.

I think they had overdone the TWOK hommages already, not only in nuTrek. But this one was too much. "No more references to TWOK" will be on the top of my wishlist for the next movie.

If I have to hear yet another "the needs of the many" speech or another "I've alwas been and always shall be your friend", I'm gonna freak out! And please, no more "Khaaaaan" ... please never do that again!

Well it's all down to personal taste, I thought Spock's Khhaaaaaan was hillarious.

If I have to hear yet another "the needs of the many" speech or another "I've alwas been and always shall be your friend", I'm gonna freak out! And please, no more "Khaaaaan" ... please never do that again!

Yeah, that was actually bugging me since the first movie. Them using those catchphrases gets really old. It just makes it seem like the writers can't come up with iconic phrases on their own.

Pindar wrote:

Well it's all down to personal taste, I thought Spock's Khhaaaaaan was hillarious.

Yep, and hilarious is exactly what I want the pivotal emotional climax of my movie to be.

Not.

__________________Bashir: »Out of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren't?«Garak: »My dear doctor, they're all true.«Bashir: »Even the lies?«Garak: »Especially the lies.«

Would have been some sort of an A based purely on the performances and the general thrust of the movie, which I thoroughly enjoyed, but I marked it down for the constant parody/tributes to TWOK and old trek in general.

(I can't believe that, out of all of the potential objections, people are focusing on a continuity error between films separated by 30 years, rather than this being yet another dumbass get-out-of-death-free reset button. For Pete's sake, can't anyone in Star Trek stay dead?)

This.

Is you're going to play the "death" card, have the guts to stand by it.